Jilin Travel and Tours Guide

Situated in northeastern China, Jilin Province
is one of the three regions in the world known for the black earth.
It produces a great quantity of grain, minerals, and special products
and grows a vast expanse of forests.

Jilin
Province is also one of the major forest regions in China. The Changbai
Mountains in eastern Jilin, known as the "Changbai Sea of Forests,"
rise and fall for 1,000 kilometers. Here grow Pinus sylvestriformis
and other ancient trees. The province features 7.769 million hectares
of timberland and 41.3 percent of forest cover. It produces 6 million
cubic meters timber yearly, the second in China.

Jilin boasts of rich mineral resources. A total of 136 minerals have
been discovered, and the deposits of 75 discovered minerals have been
ascertained. The province leads other provinces, autonomous regions,
and municipalities in terms of oil shale reserve, comes out in front
in the reserves of chromium, nickel, molybdenum, cyanite, andalusite,
mould-casting sand, refractory clay, limestone, vein quartz, diatomite,
speckstone, plumbago, and gypsum, and has rich deposits of gold, silver,
petroleum, natural gas, and coal.

Jilin
is a world-renowned producer of the "three treasures of northeastern
China,"- ginseng, mink, and pilous antler. Its output of ginseng
and pilous antler surpuses that of other regions in China. Ginseng from
Xinkaihe of Ji'an City has the best quality. There are more than 2,700
species of wild plants, including 90 of medicinal value. Of which over
70 can be used in the manufacture of perfumes and tonics. There are
also more than 80 specimens of edible fungi. Glossy ganoderma, elevated
gastrodia, astragali, and other medicinal herbs have long been known
far and wide. Hedgehogtfungus and other special products are much sought
after by consumers, both Chinese and foreign.